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Tomato Soup Recipe

Ingredients

6 medium tomatos (you can use canned as well). Note: I’m skipping the step of de-skinning the tomatoes because the I’m eventually going add them to our blender which will make skins and seeds smooth.
extra virgin olive oil
Salt and fresh ground pepper
2 stalks of celery, chopped. Note: I’m only rough chopping everything because . Since these ingredients will end up being made smooth, I’m saving time on the cutting board by not dicing/mincing.
2 or 3 carrots, chopped.
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
4 cloves of garlic, skinned and chopped
1.5 cups of chicken broth or bullion. My wife made some chicken curry soup with root vegetables the day before I executed this recipe, so I was lucky to have “real” broth.
1 handful fresh basil leaves
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 cup cream or half-and-half (optional; we had some in the fridge so I threw it in)

Nice to have

Sourdough bread. With crispy, crunchy crust. I want some right now.

Directions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Quarter the tomatoes and place them on a baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil. Place them in the oven to roast for 15 to 20 minutes.

In the meantime, heat up some olive oil in a saucepan and throw in the chopped celery, carrots, onion and garlic. Cook 10 to 15 minutes, or until the carrots are soft.

Add the roasted tomatoes, chicken broth and butter. Simmer for another 20 minutes.

Spoon the ingredients from your saucepan into a food processor container. You will have to do it in two rounds because there won’t be enough room in your bin for everything at once. Fill the food processor container to about halfway full and run it on high until the soup looks smooth.

Pour the pureed batch into a saucepan and add the remaining chunky ingredients to the blender bin. Add the handful of fresh basil leaves and creme to the bin and puree it all together.

Vegetables on deck for choppingWe like to keep potted basil on the windowsill so it's always handy.Quartered tomatoes drizzled with extra virgin olive oil are ready for the oven.Softening up the vegetables while the tomatoes roast in the oven.Added roasted tomatoes from the oven to the saucepan to simmer.This is what it looks like after everything has been pureed together in the Vitamix blender. Ready for a sprinkle of ground pepper and a slice of sourdough bread!